
The Supreme Court unanimously decided that TikTok must divest from its Chinese-owned parent company, ByteDance.
In the opinion, the high court upheld a law passed by Congress last April that gave TikTok nine months to divest from ByteDance or be removed from U.S-based app stores.
ByteDance is TikTok’s parent company. It’s headquartered in Beijing and subject to Chinese law, which requires companies to make data available to the Chinese Communist Party.
On Sunday, Jan. 19th, it will be illegal for the United States to “provide services to distribute, maintain, or update” TikTok as long as the platform is under Chinese control.
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